Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-08-25
"The Young Lady"

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ATOP of the Rocky Mountains now,
nlh'am."
Emily Vaughn looked to left and to
right. and was conscious of feeling OF
disappointment. She had pictured the
top of the Rocky Mountains MS some.
thing quite different from this. Here
were no frowning heights or sudden
CULTS, only wide-rolling plateau, some
distant peaks which did not look very
high, and far ahead glimpse of lower
levels running down into plains. 1t
seemed hardly worth while to have
come so far for so little.
Really" she said. but where are
the mountains? They don't look nearly
so high as they did yesterdays
Naturally ma'am," responded the
engineer; "things don't appear SO high
when you're as high as they are. We're
atop. you know"
but there's no look-oi1, no wonder
full distance, as from the top of Mt
Washington. l confess l am disap-
pointed"
"Its kind of queer" said John Scott,
with dry chuckle. show folks from
the East keep alluding to that ere
little hill as if it were the standard of
measurement. We don't think so much
of it this way. Why, ma'am, you're
about 1000 feet higher at this minute
than if you WAS at the top of that little
fhuck of q Mt. Washington that they
all think so much of"
Miss Vaughn smiled but she expert
enced n shock nevertheless. The New
England mind does not easily accus-
tom itself to hearing its sacred noun
tain thus lightly spoken against.
Have you ever seen Mt. Washington"
sue asked.
"Oh, bless YOU, yeS!' replied John
Scott, cheerfulIv Il was raised over
to Fryeburg. and grew up alongside of
it. thought it was a pretty big con-
Germ when | was a boy. but now" He
closed the sentence with short en-
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journey, during which, favored as q
relative of one of the directors of the
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I,;d y, with a hror.on law
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Winter" said Miss vaurhn rn,ing
the troo,c,s distances and th. .nnw9
still olin,fno on thc highnr nook. to rho
left.
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wear, when tLo snow sheds wasn't
bu;lt, if was tcrrih,e WINS r,,nning
that train that stuck in the snow seven
DAYS. pcrbaos you'U remember obnut
it: it was in all the ponors sb,'n't
never FORGET That not ifIrvn to bs ~
old as my grandfather, and he didn't
die till he was ninety odd"
Tell me about il " said Miss Voprbn
pcrsuasivelv. setting herself on the
high side bench Of the cab with that
air of attention which i 50 on.
ticinr TO the story teller. omusements
pre few and far botwao, in tI,o Iorn
monotony of the overland journey 70
California: besides which. Miss youcbn
dearly loved = story.
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mint any hand At tol,rg ,hi,ns oi,born
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